Save the Pets, Save the city Stop Jim Gardner's BS

1st off I like pets
We have 2 pets that were rescues, 1 was a rejected rescue. Someone had returned it as a bad kitten. The other cat was abused by prior owner. It does not like to be petted. We have been working with both and have made good progress. The neighbors want to know why our cats are so friendly with new people.

Our prior cat of 18+ year pad to be put down. Two years prior it was diagnosed with an eye issue that caused pressure build up in the eye. The cat was prescribed with medication daily 3 times more than humans take.
Eventually, the cat had to have its eye removed due to pressure. The 2nd eye had similar issue but lesser degree so remove needed, but was blind in remaining eye . Difficult decision quality of life vs age/ blind. After eye removal he survived for one year. We had to give fluid injections daily.

It is a bummer the career politicians want to make this a BS issue.

I saw a lot of the BS papers distributed by the Adam Nick / Leah Basile / Jim Gardner puppet team campaign.

The call the OC animal shelter a "high kill shelter".

They state they will create a "No kill shelter". Common sense immediately says that is impossible. Animal shelters always will receive animals that are, too injured, incurable diseases (click for info) crazy, old and dying....
So to state "no kill" is a lie. For example, if a cat catches the incurable CONTAGIOUS disease FIP, it is contagious and sad as it is the cat must be put to sleep. The other option is other cats get it and 95% die. :( . Oh and I forgot to mention, apparently the vaccine does not work on FIP. I would not want my pet to be at a place with active FIP. It would be safer running on the freeway.

The 2nd issue I see is they want to cancel the contract with the county. The contract is already done. Play the cards dealt, work with it ( while complaining.) to still attempt to make a HELPFUL dent to decrease the amount put to sleep. And worse yet is FIP cannot be diagnosed.
But they do not have any location to put an animal shelter in lake forest. NO

They state they would open up adoption places in lake forest in multiple locations.
Who is going to pay for all that?

Problems - Zoning, animal shelters are not supposed to be close to other business for a reason. Imagine a warehouse district.

Stray Animals brought in, fleas go next doors. people get strange diseases. Noise. Good luck working with barking next door at your office , or even a few doors down.

Were the Animal shelter complainers unaware there are pet adoption groups at most Pet-Smarts on Saturdays?

Interesting,

No where in their fliers, pamphlets, websites to they promote adoptions. That is just because they will promise the world to get elected. Maybe after reading this article that will change. Look Ma, I changed the world a little.

Then I looked at the evil "high kill shelter" . I thought how can that be changed, where to focus efforts to help.
I looked at the number of animals taken in.
I looked at the chart posted on their site as to the breakdown on number of kills.

ocsnimalshelterstats.jpg

Then I ASKED MORE QUESTIONS
I wanted to know the different reasons and numbers of animals put to sleep.
I wanted to know then numbers of animals that have to be put to sleep.

Also, keep in mind the OC animal shelter serves 17 city's. NOT just Lake forest.

Most categories are understandable as to why an animal had to be put down.
I did not understand LOC and too young.
so I asked I got was image 3 :

TOO YOUNG means that the animal came in unweaned without its mother and was too small/young for our foster program.

LOC-NOTNR means that the cat could not be surgically sterilized and returned to the community because of restrictions on the location (for example, the cat was impounded from a school, mobile home park or typhus area).

I again asked some more questions. I am waiting for the responses.

So from what I see , the high number is fresh born kittens too young to survive. and a couple hundred for LOC problems.

If the people running for office actually cared, they would be using their "power" to fix the problem, not make excuses. It would have been easy to as a few words about the groups rescuing animals on the election mailers. Those were huge this year.
no mention of places like
foreverhomecatrescue.org
adoptapet.com
thepetrescuecenter.org

ocpetinfo.com Oh! Wait, That is the site of the Evil OCANIMAL SHELTER!! The sites goal is to adopt out pets to save lives. In all the posts on this site complaining about the Oc animal shelter, any mentions of the above pet sites? Any mentions in ANY of the Comments. Ah, NO . In many thousands of posts / comments am I the first???? But with the power of edit , they probably will now.

There are more. let me know their web addresses or contact info if no site. I can add them

I find it interesting to note, the great Jim Gardner, who writes articles
1 to 2 times DAILY complaining about or misleading people. Never mentions any of the above in his articles

He, Jim Gardner who is an advocate to "stop using the 'high kill ' shelter"
As an advocate of this cause , he gets attention by trying to fix the problem. If the problem is solved, he would have to shut up. I do not think he wants to shut up at the expense of animals lives.

I did laugh at a BS statement he made on Oct 28 2016 on patch.com he stated he " a local veterinarian who is willing to transform his veterinary practice into a local no kill shelter. "

I have worked for vets as computer tech. The offices are not that big!!! A shelter must house a lot of animals. That a BS political statement. It sounds good when read, but when you think about, it is a no go.